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...survived the humiliation and the subsequent revolution that swept over Russia. Eleven years later he blundered into another war, another defeat, another revolution. In the 1918 Treaty of Brest Litovsk, the Germans' price for making peace with the shaky new Bolshevik regime included stripping away Russia's western holdings: Finland, Poland and the Baltic states all regained their independence...
...Germany, the Germans happily agreed to provide him with a sealed railway carriage (rather like a container for a deadly bacillus) and even allocated secret funds to aid his plans to stop the war. And so, after ten more years of exile, Lenin finally arrived by train at the Finland Station in Petrograd on April 16, 1917. He climbed onto an armored car and began making a speech. "The people need peace. The people need bread. The people need land," he cried. "And they give you war, hunger, no bread . . . We must fight for the social revolution...
There is a sly, quiet traveller character in them called Snufkin, who wanders around, with his shapeless black hat, a harmonica and a pipe. This summer, in Inari, Finland (working for Let's Go), I bought a hat which looked like Snufkin's hat. Phoenix came to our table, leaned over, picked up mine, which is mostly shapeless...
...high technology and mass communications, has made it possible to infiltrate competing images of reality across borders. "Terrestrial overspill" allowed East Germans to watch West German TV, tempting them with what they saw advertised. Young Estonians have learned idiomatic American English from reruns of Dynasty shown in neighboring Finland...
Little Fun in Finland: Sophomore goalieChuckie Hughes and freshman forward Ted Drury havebeen in Helsinki playing in the World JuniorChampionships since mid-December, but the holidayshaven't been happy ones...